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verb
- To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel.
- To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.
- (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
- To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
- To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.
- To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind. Also written "ware". Past: weared, or wore/worn.
- To defend; protect.
- To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
- To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
- To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
- To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
- To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
- To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.
- To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
- To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety.
noun
verb
- prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off
- turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest
- turn aside and away from an initial or intended course
- draw someone's attention away from something
- impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball)
noun
noun
adj
- Providing protection from danger; providing shelter.
- Great, cool, awesome, respectable; a term of approbation, often as interjection.
- Lenient, usually describing a teacher that is easy-going.
- In a location that renders it difficult to hit with the cue ball.
- Reliable; trusty.
- When a batter successfully reaches first base, or when a baserunner successfully advances to the next base or returns to the base he last occupied; not out.
- Not in danger; out of harm's reach.
- Cautious.
- Free from risk.
- Of a programming language, type-safe or more generally offering well-defined behavior despite programming errors.
- Properly secured.
- Not susceptible to a specified source of harm.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- A simple defensive action designed to deflect an attack, performed with the forte of the blade.
- A defensive move intended to change the direction of an incoming strike to make it miss its intended target, rather than block and absorb it; and typically performed with an open hand in a downward or sideways slapping motion.
- A defensive or deflective action; an act of parrying.
verb
- To be off one's guard.
- To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day.
- To form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather).
- To cover (something) with a sauce. (usually in the passive)
noun
- A card game in which players take tricks; properly Napoleon.
- A soft or fuzzy surface, generally on fabric or leather.
- A cup, bowl.
- A bid to take five tricks in the card game Napoleon.
- The common direction, on some kinds of fabric, of the hairs making up the pile.
- A short period of sleep, especially one during the day.
- A type of bet in British horse racing, based on the experts' best tips.
verb
- To act as a curb or restraint.
- To inspect; to examine.
- To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
- To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
- To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
- To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have the opponent pass or bounce it back to start play.
- To make a move which puts an adversary's king in check; to put in check.
- To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
- To disrupt another player with the stick or body to obtain possession of the ball or puck.
- To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
- To announce that one is remaining in a hand without betting.
- To verify or compare with a source of information.
- To leave in safekeeping.
- To control, limit, or halt.
- To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have been chosen for keeping or removal or that have been dealt with (for example, completed or verified as correct or satisfactory).
- To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
- To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
- To make a stop; to pause; with at.
- To mark with a check pattern.
adj
noun
- The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
- A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
- Any fabric woven with such a pattern.
- A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
- A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator.
- A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
- A control; a limit or stop.
- An inspection or examination.
- A small chink or crack.
- A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
- An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity.
- A mark, certificate, or token by which errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
- A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern.
- A token used instead of cash in gaming machines, or in gambling generally.
noun
- Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion.
- A sex worker who does not operate in a brothel, but with whom clients make appointments; a call girl or male equivalent.
- A guard who travels with a dangerous person, such as a criminal, for the protection of others.
- A group of people or vehicles, generally armed, who go with a person or people of importance to safeguard them on a journey or mission.
- An accompanying person in such a group.
- A group of people attending as a mark of respect or honor.
- An accompanying person in a social gathering, etc.
verb
- To go with someone as a partner, for example on a formal date.
- To attend to in order to guard and protect; to accompany as a safeguard (for the person escorted or for others); to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to
- To accompany (a person) in order to compel them to go somewhere (e.g. to leave a building).
verb
- To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
- To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character.
- To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
- To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
- To get free; to free oneself.
- To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
noun
- Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
- escape key
- A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
- A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
- A successful shot from a snooker position.
- The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
- The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
- Something that has escaped; an escapee.
- An apophyge.
verb
- To set free from restraint or danger.
- To give birth to.
- To free from or disburden of anything.
- To bring or transport something to its destination.
- To produce what is expected or required.
- To express in words or vocalizations, declare, utter, or vocalize.
- To discover; to show.
- To administer a drug.
- To assist in the birth of.
- To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge.
- To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.
- To assist (a female) in bearing, that is, in bringing forth (a child).
adj
verb
- To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
- To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
- To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
- To admit to residence; to harbor.
- To contain or cover mechanical parts.
- To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
- To eat.
- To keep within a structure or container.
noun
- House music.
- A workhouse.
- An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
- A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
- A theatre.
- An apartment building within a public housing estate.
- One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
- A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
- Size and quality of residential accommodations.
- The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
- A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.
- A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.
- The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
- Lotto; bingo.
- A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
- A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
- A small stand of trees in a swamp.
- A set of cells in a Sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box in classic Sudoku.
- The people who live in a house; a household.
- A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
- A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.
- The fourth Lenormand card.
- A place of rest or repose.
- A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
verb
verb
- To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.
- To seal a lodge against intrusions from unauthorised people.
- To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).
- To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique.
- To cover with tiles.
noun
verb
- To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
- To recover forcibly.
- To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.
- To save from any violence, danger or evil.
- To deliver by arms, notably from a siege.
- To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
noun
verb
- To resist damage; to be attacked without being hurt.
- To put (fuel, etc.) into a tank.
- To contemplate a decision for a long time; to go in the tank.
- To stand; to tolerate.
- To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.
- To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.
- To attract the attacks of an enemy target in cooperative team-based combat, so that one's teammates can defeat the enemy in question more efficiently.
noun
- A prison cell, or prison generally.
- A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial.
- A closed container for liquids or gases.
- A very muscular and physically imposing person. Somebody who is built like a tank.
- A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight.
- A metaphorical place where a player goes to contemplate a decision; see in the tank.
- An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.
- The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.
- By extension a small pond for the same purpose.
- An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
- a unit or character designed primarily around damage absorption and holding the attention of the enemy (as opposed to dealing damage, healing, or other tasks).
- The amount held by a container; a tankful.
- A Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.
- A large metal container for holding drinking water for animals, usually placed near a wind-driven water pump, in an animal pen or field.
- A reservoir or dam.
verb
- To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- To hit with a block.
- To wait for some condition to become true.
- To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
- To bar (someone undesirable) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
- To play a block shot.
- To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.
- To shape or sketch out roughly.
- To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- To impede (an opponent or opponent's play).
- To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
noun
- A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- A cellblock.
- The popping crease.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
- A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
- Solitary confinement.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- A blockhole.
- A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- The human head.
- A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- A roughly cuboid building.
- A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
verb
- To duck or take cover, usually to avoid harm. Commonly used as a caution or warning in the imperative.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, down.
- To party.
- To concentrate; attend.
- To swallow (something).
- To leave the table after dining.
- To relax and enjoy oneself completely; be uninhibited in one's enjoyment.
- To have sex.
- To record in writing.
- To bring or come down; to descend; to cause to bring or come down.
- To depress; discourage; fatigue.
- To dance, particularly without inhibition or restraint, or in a sexually suggestive manner.
- To criticise
noun
verb
- To avoid or bypass an obstacle.
- To circumvent the obligation and performance of a chore; to get out of.
- To visit numerous different places.
- To transport oneself from place to place.
- To be sexually promiscuous.
- To move to the other side of (something, such as an obstruction) by deviating from a direct course or following a curved path.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, around.
verb
- To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.
- To fasten by binding; to gird.
- To protect the edge of, especially with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc.
- To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend.
- To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety.
noun
- A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.
- A state of caution; posture of defence.
- Something worn to protect part of the body, e.g. the shins in cricket.
- Either of two offensive positions between the centre and each of the offensive tackles, whose main responsibilities are to protect the quarterback, and open up "holes" through which offensive players can run.
- A player playing a position named guard.
- A relatively short player, playing farther from the basket than a forward or centre.
- A squad responsible for protecting something.
- The position on the popping crease where a batsman makes a mark to align himself with the wicket; see take guard.
- A watchchain.
- The aircraft emergency frequency, a radio frequency reserved for emergency communications, typically 121.5MHz for civilian use.
- A part of a machine which blocks access to dangerous parts.
- A panel of a car that encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- A garda; a police officer.
- The part of a sword that protects the wielder's hand.
- A ground grappling position in which one combatant has their back to the ground while attempting to control the other combatant using their legs.
- A Boolean expression that must evaluate to true for a branch of program execution to continue.
- An employee, normally travelling in the last vehicle of a train, responsible for the safety of the train.
noun
- An escape or evasion by subterfuge or pretext; a way of avoiding or getting out of a difficult or uncomfortable situation.
- The way any thing or business turns out; the way a person comes off from an encounter or enterprise; result; outcome; reception.
- That which comes off or the act or process of coming off; emission.
- An apology; excuse.
- An exhibition of temper.
noun
- That which defends against intrusion from outside; a protection.
- A defensive structure; a protective barrier; a bulwark.
- A defensive mound of earth or a wall with a broad top and usually a stone parapet; a wall-like ridge of earth, stones or debris; an embankment for defensive purpose.
- A steep bank of a river or gorge.
verb
adv
- To a sufficiently strong degree to prevent some other action from happening.
- To a greater extent than is wanted or required; excessively.
adj
intj
det
- More (of something) than is desirable or required.
- Much; even a moderate amount.
- You ate too much cake at the party, and that's why you feel sick.
noun
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